These days the indie games scene is thriving. There are a large n♏umber of tiny studios putting out content that can give eve🀅n AAA titles a run for their money. It seems like, as gamers, we have more choice than ever before and we love it.
However🍎, for every , there are others we are less excited about. Honestly, right now it's difficult to find anything that looks truly terrible but there are a few tiꦍtles that aren't quite grabbing us yet. It may be a lack of information, the subject matter or the fact they feel part of an overdone genre but we just can't quite get excited about them.
With that in mind, these are the indie games we can't wait to play an♉d a few we're morꦏe unsure about.
10 🍨 🧸 Looking Forward To: Moving Out
A crazy physics simulator from Team17, Moving Out looks like a great choice for anyone wanting some couch co-op chaos involving actual couches. It feels like a similar vibe to the much loved Overcooked and great fun to play with family and friends.
Furniture movers are often criticiz🀅ed and now we can see if we can do a better job. It also gets bonus points for enabling us to shout some of our favorite quotes including "Pivot" and "to me, to you."
9 ✅ Not: Wayward Strand
Appearing to be an interactive novel style title, Ghost Pattern's Wayward Strand sees your character, Casey Beaumaris, visiting and exploring an airborne hospiꦇtal. While the "heartfelt interactive story" has the potential to tug on our heartstrings, its release into a pandemic filled world is unfortunate timing.
While we're sure the game could be interesting, as players explore the mysteries of the ship, we find ourselves really wanting to avoid anything disease or hospital-related right now.🏅 Since there is no current release date for the title, here's hoping we can build up some enthusiasm before it hits shelves.
8 Looki𓂃ng Forward To: Baldo
Baldo will be a Switch timed exclusive and its trailer has some major Studio Ghibli echoes. It appears tꦜo be an anime movie you can jump right into and we're exc𒀰ited to see more of this action-adventure RPG.
The team has promised "puzzles, intriguing gameplay mechanics and intricate dungeons to solve spread through a wide, interactive open world." Sounds great to us. The obvious and acknowledged influences from some of our favor🤪ite animes are the icing on the cake.
7 🅷 No🧸t: Plaything
Will Anderson and Niall Tessier Lavigne's Plaything makes this list because we simply don't know enough to figure out ♉wh💦at's going on and nothing is wowing us.
The title is said to involve inte♒racting with a variety of creatures that react differently, depending on their personalities. Honestly, it sounds a little like having a Tamagotchi and we know what happened to those.
Since the graphics are simple, the gameplay needs to wow us and right now all we know is that it sounds like a concept that's been done many times before. Here's hoping the game is much greater than it 🍒first appears.
6 💦 Looking Forward To: The Gꦆood Life
The words White Owls and SWERY are enough to get us excited on their own but when the Nintendo Indie Direct Showcase gave us a trailer for The Good Life our excitement peaked.
The action-adventure RPG is described as a "debt replayment daily life R✅PG." While the title originally fell short of a Kickstarter str𒆙etch goal to take it to the Switch someone has stepped in as this now a reality and one we are embracing.
5 ⛎ 📖 Not: Boyfriend Dungeon
The problem with Boyfriend Dungeon is that it's a dating simulator at heart and right now we feel like we're over them. We've had dating sims for daddies, anime girls, dogs, cats, monsters and even Colo𝔍nel Sanders. While we are intrigued by the dungeon crawler element, we're still hesitant to play another dating simulator.
The main thing going for it is that it comes from Kitfox Games but for us, their other projects, including Lucifer Within Us and Mondo Museum are far more appealing. We hope to get our hands on those first and are sliding this one to the bot♔tom of our wishlist, for now at leaﷺst.
4 ꦇ Looking Forward To: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout looks like the video game equivalent of all those crazy shows you see on tv where contestants navigate a weird variety of obstacles. Total Wipeout meets Takeshi's Castle, this title appears to be both casual and chaotic.
The trailer suggests it's the kind of game you can pick up, convince friends to play and then spend some enjoyable ho🧔urs racing around obstacle courses of insanity, knocking each other🍌 out in the effort to become the one remaining victor.
3 🍎 𝓰 Not: Spiritfarer
While we feel bad putting this title on our not list, since it looks stunning, we just don't feel able to take a seat on the emotional rollercoaster right now. Spiritfarer 𒐪sees you playing 🏅Stella, a ferrymaster to the dead.
We appreciate the cute cat, which is called Daffodil, and the fact that you can fish, cook and farm in this beautiful world but we just know it's goinꦰg to put us through an emotional wringer.
Here's hoping this releases later in the🦩 year, once our emotions can cope with what looks set to be a poiꦫgnant journey through a beautiful and feeling filled adventure.
2 🌟 ꧂ Looking Forward To: Sable
This one is for all those who are looking for some purpose and meaning right now. It reminds us of Journey and is said to be a coming-of-age tale t﷽hat will take you on a personal journey in an open world desert on an alien planet.
As Sable, the title character, explores they look set to discover the planet's history alongside their own place in the world. It appears beautiful but hopefully, it won't emotionally devastate us in the same way we fear Spiritfarer would.
1 Not: Acid Knifﷺe ♉
Powerhoof's Acid Knife is here beca♔use it feels like a love or hate game and they are always a struggle to place. It's a 2D action game with platform mechanics tha꧂t apparently don't require lightning reflexes.
The dark surrealist🤪 art is the part likely to divide gamers, with some loving the broken down look and others hating the echoes of a retro game that misloaded. At the moment we don't know much else so this placement is mainly based on the title's love or hate artwork.